2020 Top Seed Open

The 2020 Top Seed Open was a professional women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor hard courts at the Top Seed Tennis Club in Nicholasville, near Lexington, Kentucky. It was a WTA International-class tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour, and was the first American tournament of the Tour to be played since its suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Top Seed Open
Date	August 10–16
Surface	Hard / Outdoor
Location	Lexington, United States
Venue	Top Seed Tennis Club
Champions
Singles
Jennifer Brady
Doubles
Hayley Carter / Luisa Stefani

The event was announced in early-July 2020 as one of two substitute events (alongside the 2020 Prague Open) for the Washington Open, whose organizers had declined to host the WTA Tour this season (the event was ultimately canceled later that month, citing the pandemic) in lieu of the regular US Open Series.^[1][2][3]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles					1	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q2	Q1
Singles	$25,000	$14,000	$8,700	$5,000	$3,150	$2,300	$1,685	$1,100
Doubles*	$9,000	$5,040	$3,230	$1,980	$1,520	—	—	—

_{*per team}

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
USA	Serena Williams	9	1
BLR	Aryna Sabalenka	11	2
GBR	Johanna Konta	14	3
USA	Amanda Anisimova	28	4
KAZ	Yulia Putintseva	33	5
POL	Magda Linette	36	6
USA	Sloane Stephens	37	7
TUN	Ons Jabeur	39	8

• Rankings are as of March 16, 2020

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Caty McNally
• Shelby Rogers
• Vera Zvonareva

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:

• Catherine Bellis

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Kristie Ahn
• Caroline Dolehide
• Leylah Annie Fernandez
• Olga Govortsova
• Anna Kalinskaya
• Bethanie Mattek-Sands

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Francesca Di Lorenzo

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Zarina Diyas → replaced by Misaki Doi
• Garbiñe Muguruza → replaced by Venus Williams
• Amanda Anisimova → replaced by Francesca Di Lorenzo

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
CHI	Alexa Guarachi	USA	Desirae Krawczyk	76	1
USA	Jennifer Brady	BLR	Aryna Sabalenka	77	2
USA	Coco Gauff	USA	Caty McNally	89	3
USA	Hayley Carter	BRA	Luisa Stefani	90	4

• ¹ Rankings are as of March 16, 2020

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Sloane Stephens
• Gabriela Talabă / Caitlin Whoriskey

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2020 Top Seed Open – Singles

• Jennifer Brady def. Jil Teichmann, 6–3, 6–4

Doubles

Main article: 2020 Top Seed Open – Doubles

• Hayley Carter / Luisa Stefani def. Marie Bouzková / Jil Teichmann, 6–1, 7–5